"Intergalactic": The Beasties proclaim their status as kings of the hip-hop hill on the album's first single, which already has been available on the band's official website (All the familiar ingredients are in place - Ad-Rock's frantic rhymes, MCA's It even includes sampled dance instructions for those who are rusty on their steps. ![]() "Body Movin' ": This track sets a robotic vocal cadence to what sounds like computerized carnival music. Lines such as "Don't worry about it when you give it your best" sound almost parental "Just a Test": Here, on the album's shortest cut (2:12), the simile-laden lyrics urge listeners to view mistakes as a necessary part of growth. The Beasties - whose live set once featured women in cages - continue to counter the objectifying view of women on their early albums with questions like, "What makes you feel like you got the right to look her up and down?" "Song for the Man": The keyboard and horns on "Song for the Man" sound like they were ripped straight from a 1970s TV variety-show number about one-world harmony. "Remote Control": This one starts off with a soft rock en espanol sample that eventually gives way to a big beat and a thick guitar riff as Mike DĮncourages listeners to forge their own destiny. Toulouse-Lautrec and an atmospheric harpsichord sample that suggests a nod Shout-outs here include a lyrical nod to French painter Henri de Witness: "I don't mean to brag/ I don't mean to boast/ But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast." "The Move": The Beasties have always scored points for undercutting swagger with humor, and they probably always will. "When we're gettin' down, we are all equal," says Ad-Rock, delivering the bottom line to it all. The only '90s update is a dense beat structure that undergirds the whole song. This one's designed to kick the party into overdrive with a crowd-pumping chorus, plenty of DJ scratching and a Run-D.M.C., tag-team rhyme style. "Super Disco Breakin' ": The name says it all here, as the B-Boys take a trip back to the old school. ![]() Here's a track-by-track breakdown of the new album: From the rap-metal combo of their Licensed to Ill (1986) debut to the sampleĬornucopia of Paul's Boutique (1989) to the genre-mixers Check Your Head (1992) and Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys have become among the most successful and influential chameleons in the music business. Their new release, Hello Nasty (July 14), has been the subject of wide speculation.įew records this year are as eagerly awaited as the Beasties'. With the Beastie Boys' irons in so many fires, the direction they'd take with Under the name BS 2000) and staged three Tibetan Freedom Concerts, the most recent of which, held last weekend, is being hailed as the largest benefit Punk EP, an instrumental compilation and an electronica album (the last Hip-hop innovators have played a Lollapalooza tour released a hardcore Since their last full-length album, 1994's Ill Communication, the When it comes to the Beastie Boys, it's not simply the group's slow album-release schedule that builds such high anticipation for its records - it's also the B-Boys' track record for throwing curve-ball strikes with each release, as well as their proclivity for tackling other projects. Adam Yauch) prove that, perhaps more than any of their contemporaries, they can turn listeners' heads as well as shake their booties. Returning to the alternating hardcore and funk dynamic that characterizedįrom the opening track, "Super Disco Breakin'," through to the somberly sung closer, "Instant Death," Mike D (a.k.a. ![]() Of styles (salsa, acoustic songs and futuristic dub, for example), without The quintessential New York hip-hop trio once more immerses itself in a variety Fiend exercisin his right of exorcism, bustin out the Expedition Bullets choppin haters business to about the size of prisms our mission They heard we scary, No Limit mercenary No tellin how bad it get, because the worst'll vary I heard you make em worry, that this for the loot They intimidated by the rounds that the tank shoot Tank Dogs salute! Every robbery in store, cause they know Everything Fiend know, mean mo' money mo' Little Fiend still want the greens, the cornbread and the cabbage In your hood, remindin you bitches of who the baddest Definitely the maddest, so the crime gon' stick em up My uhh went twice (uhh, uhh) And ended with nine, get em Make em say uhh (uhh) Na-nah na-nah (na-nah na-nah) P gon' make ya say uhh, I'mma make you say ahh I'm not Eric B.When the 22-song Hello Nasty hits stores this summer, Beastie Boys fans will once again be taken on a far-flung joyride with the B-Boys at the wheel.
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